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. >> it's a fun, exciting environment. fun way to shop and also support a local store. >> how much did you spend today? >> exactly? $1402 and change. >> i just looked at the numbers from today, from 2:00 when cash mob started to 3:30 which is an hour and a half, we had over 300 people come through the store and they spent way more than $20. our total for that span of time, hour and a half, was $9,000. >> in new york the cash mob was happening at two local down stores. somersalt and bell port lie kwurs. >> i bought wine so that supports the community. >> the method for selecting a small business to be cash mobbed is simple. >> first they need to be locally owned and secondly they need to give back to their community. the second part you can't fake. you can say hey i'll start sponsoring a team, bring a cash nobody my business so i can do this. we generally look for people that have a long standing commitment to their communities. >> afterwards an true encourages the cash mob participants to hang out at a local watering hole.
. >> it's a fun, exciting environment. fun way to shop and also support a local store. >> how much did you spend today? >> exactly? $1402 and change. >> i just looked at the numbers from today, from 2:00 when cash mob started to 3:30 which is an hour and a half, we had over 300 people come through the store and they spent way more than $20. our total for that span of time, hour and a half, was $9,000. >> in new york the cash mob was happening at two local down...
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people but i guess in terms of moving the ball forward on all things green, all things relating to the environment and our energy policy how optimistic are you that we're going to find a solution to this in the coming years, which is to say the next four? >> you know, in hearing the president speak and reading -- it's i guess confused as an observer and i love listening to you but trying to parse out what it means because what it goes back to for me, in the election, when politicians were separating ow the economy from birth control i was like, no, it's the same. when we hear, we have to see what's economically sound, and when we talk about climate change and energy, didn't i just hear, and don't we think the future is green jobs and what that means? so kind of stepping back, makes me feel frustrated because i feel like isn't that the direction we need to be going in and how do we convince americans that, yeah, you know what, prices at pump have to go up if we want to have them not? >> you can ask somebody who has lost a business in coney island or in the rockaways if this is about jobs and growth
people but i guess in terms of moving the ball forward on all things green, all things relating to the environment and our energy policy how optimistic are you that we're going to find a solution to this in the coming years, which is to say the next four? >> you know, in hearing the president speak and reading -- it's i guess confused as an observer and i love listening to you but trying to parse out what it means because what it goes back to for me, in the election, when politicians were...
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while their environment is being destroyed, if you think about louisiana as a state that is being literally destroyed by the industry that employs a good number of the people there. so every mechanism in that state is designed to protect an industry that's destroying the state. but people as real lives are tied to it. even democrats, someone like jay rockefeller who is considered a great prerogative when it comes to coal, he's are with the republicans. >> anyone who is going to be elected -- there are certain places where it's the geographic interests override the ideological ones. >> that's why is we need some actually leadership from the president, and others on the really central issues. i mean, look, climate change is the legacy issue of all legacy issues. you know, 100 years from now, the only thing that people are going to look back on 2012 and care about. the fiscal cliff or the -- it's like, you guys the arctic melts and you didn't do anything about it? why is that? >> keystone is one pipeline. the canadian company is planning to double the same pipeline that leaked. say obama rejec
while their environment is being destroyed, if you think about louisiana as a state that is being literally destroyed by the industry that employs a good number of the people there. so every mechanism in that state is designed to protect an industry that's destroying the state. but people as real lives are tied to it. even democrats, someone like jay rockefeller who is considered a great prerogative when it comes to coal, he's are with the republicans. >> anyone who is going to be elected...
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in our environment, in our hyperpartisan environment, most people in a situation like this seeing any possibility for political advantage would have raced to expose something like this, right? general petraeus was confronted about this two weeks ago, right? two weeks before the election. chose -- ultimately decided to resign but didn't decide to resign at that moment. was there part of the reason he did not decide to resign immediately upon being confronted on this, he knew it would be embarrassing for the administration on the eve of an election? that's a reasonable inference. there's so much we don't know because so many people individually have not spoken publicly about the chain of events and their motivations in terms of keeping quiet at a moment of maximum political volatility. >> just to clarify because i've raised a lot of questions here, my biggest concern isn't what happened at the end. i understand there are a lot of conservatives that are going to be thinking that this was -- >> cover-up. >> benghazi, cover-up, that's not my concern. my concern is the beginning of this. if
in our environment, in our hyperpartisan environment, most people in a situation like this seeing any possibility for political advantage would have raced to expose something like this, right? general petraeus was confronted about this two weeks ago, right? two weeks before the election. chose -- ultimately decided to resign but didn't decide to resign at that moment. was there part of the reason he did not decide to resign immediately upon being confronted on this, he knew it would be...
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we all know it was such a politically charged environment dealing with benghazi and the cia, we didn't -- they didn't want to bring something to the president that was half-baked. i think they showed great restraint in really not getting caught up in the politico hoopla that was months ago. they did it the right way by not politicizing this thing. >> petraeus was scheduled to testify this thursday in these congressional senate hearings that have been established to find out more information about benghazi. a lot of which he has been front and center of trying to pull together information on on the point person on this. senator lindsey graham made an important statement -- >> we have four dead americans in benghazi. we have a national secure failure along in the making. i don't see how in the world you can find out what happened in benghazi before, during and after the attack if general petraeus doesn't testify. so from my point of view, it's absolutely essential that he give testimony before the congress so we can figure out benghazi. >> his second is going to step in to give that test
we all know it was such a politically charged environment dealing with benghazi and the cia, we didn't -- they didn't want to bring something to the president that was half-baked. i think they showed great restraint in really not getting caught up in the politico hoopla that was months ago. they did it the right way by not politicizing this thing. >> petraeus was scheduled to testify this thursday in these congressional senate hearings that have been established to find out more...
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it's a very bad food environment that we live in. thank you for bringing this to the table. >> you just marginalized yourself in a way that your two mean brothers never could. >> p we all lived under the sea. >> intellectually limited. >>> "new york times," the liberal gloat. he makes a lot of points in this piece. i'm going to read one off the computer. let's zoom in on what he says about, for example, what happened with the hispanic vote. are democrats winning hispanics because they put forward a more welcoming face than republican s do? one more in keeping with american's tradition with migrants yearning to breathe free? yes, up to a point. but they're also winning recent immigrants because those immigrants offense wrnts a simulating successfully or, worse, ares a simulating downward, thanks to rising out of wedlock birth rates and drop out rates. it depends heavily on the darker trends, the weaker that families and communities are, the more necessary government support inevitably seems, which is an interesting point. he goes on t
it's a very bad food environment that we live in. thank you for bringing this to the table. >> you just marginalized yourself in a way that your two mean brothers never could. >> p we all lived under the sea. >> intellectually limited. >>> "new york times," the liberal gloat. he makes a lot of points in this piece. i'm going to read one off the computer. let's zoom in on what he says about, for example, what happened with the hispanic vote. are democrats...
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he had a grew up with a single mom and even in his environment being that he grew up a lot with white people and things that have nature. >> lincoln lost his mother at a young age. very close to his stepmother who in certain ways had similarities. >> losing rays. lincoln ran for congress and lost. same as barack obama. but yet, persevered and continued with the focus, to move on forward and understanding still peoplecrit stizing you but you're ready to take that criticism because you want to take the next step. sometimes if you're sincere, you don't know right away what the right thing is to do. you've got to think about it and ponder and walk around. as president obama did surely even when he went after osama bin laden. he didn't know. he said i've got to sleep on it. what's the right thing to do here. sometimes you've got to make the right decision and sometimes you may make the wrong decision. >> there's a preference for come tem plative president. sort of weigh in on this for me. >> i think that certainly the falling to your knees at a time of conflict that commonality that both o
he had a grew up with a single mom and even in his environment being that he grew up a lot with white people and things that have nature. >> lincoln lost his mother at a young age. very close to his stepmother who in certain ways had similarities. >> losing rays. lincoln ran for congress and lost. same as barack obama. but yet, persevered and continued with the focus, to move on forward and understanding still peoplecrit stizing you but you're ready to take that criticism because...
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they will adopt whatever policies -- and they'll adapt to that environment. and also, keep in mind, 80% of most major corporations, their business is outside of north america. i'm worried about small business. i'm worried about mid-size businesses. i'm worried about the start-up businesses that say we are the engine of america. >> mm-hmm. >> you're putting this burden on us at a time where it's very difficult for us to compete in the marketplace let alone with incremental costs or uncertainty. >> so the president, congress faces a real challenge here and it's almost like you've got to thread the needle between -- >> yeah. >> ignoring the debt, which would cause the markets to rebel and moving too aggressively toward higher taxes and big spending cuts that will, again, dampen -- dampen the economy for the next year or two. we've got a difficult road ahead. >> it is a difficult road ahead. i guess my view is it's going to be difficult for them to come to a sort of grand bargain of the kind that we almost got year and a half ago. a deal that really looks ahead 1
they will adopt whatever policies -- and they'll adapt to that environment. and also, keep in mind, 80% of most major corporations, their business is outside of north america. i'm worried about small business. i'm worried about mid-size businesses. i'm worried about the start-up businesses that say we are the engine of america. >> mm-hmm. >> you're putting this burden on us at a time where it's very difficult for us to compete in the marketplace let alone with incremental costs or...
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but i think also, though, he didn't -- he was not sufficiently angry enough in this environment that the primary process was fought in. he wasn't anti-intellectual enough. >> and downplayed his conservatism. >> that was the biggest mistake. he downplayed his conservatism from the very beginning. and i want to say again, mark halperin, the anti-intellectualism in the republican party over the past decade has been growing. that's another thing bobby jindal has been talking about. that's got to change. that's got to change. we not only have to win over hispanics, we've got to win over educated hispanics. educated african-americans. educated white people. educated people of all races with ph.d.s, an area we've been losing for decades. >> and joe, there's another issue that i know you think a lot about and thought a lot about that huntsman also talked about which is afghanistan and ending the war. that's another populist issue that i think republicans missed in 2012. the president was for winding down the war. you had others who didn't run that thought that that was an issue to tap into a
but i think also, though, he didn't -- he was not sufficiently angry enough in this environment that the primary process was fought in. he wasn't anti-intellectual enough. >> and downplayed his conservatism. >> that was the biggest mistake. he downplayed his conservatism from the very beginning. and i want to say again, mark halperin, the anti-intellectualism in the republican party over the past decade has been growing. that's another thing bobby jindal has been talking about....